16/03/2005

This year, The Mar del Plata Festival in Argentina (10th-20th March) is screening some 15 German productions. Amongst them, Volker Schloendorff’s first feature since The Legend of Rita in 2000, Der Neunte Tag( The Ninth Day), and Olivier Hirschbiegel’s Der untergang (The Fall) were selected for the official competition. In the Points of view section, the Argentinian public will be able to discover Schultze Gets The Blues by Michael Sorr, and Napola by Denis Gansel. Another section, called Women & Films, includes a Turkish, German, Greek and French coproduction by Yesim Ustaoglu, Waiting for the Clouds, (presented in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale), and Twelve Chairs (Zwoelf Sutehle), a fiction feature by Ulrike Ottinger.

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In other sections, we find two latino-German coproductions, Heart of Jesus by Marcos Loayza (Bolivia/Germany/Chile) and Musica Cubana by the German director German Kral (Germany/Cuba), three documentaries, Stroke (Am Seidenen Faden) by Katarina Peters, Alias Alejandro by Alejandro Cardenas, and Landschaft by Sergei Loznitsa, a short film by Hanna Doose called Little Rabbit in a Hole, and a film by Bruce LaBruce, The Rasperry Reich.

Finally, Agnes and Her Brothers (Agnès und seine Brueder) by Oskar Roehler, will not only be screened (out of competition) in Mar del Plata, but it will also travel to New York for the 34th edition of the Festival New Directors/New Films at the Lincoln Center, together with two German short films, On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo by jan Vebeek, and Egotrip by Urs Domingo Gnad’s.

(Translated from French)